Brilliant, fiercely intelligent and moving

A truly persuasive evocation of artistic France in the last war... A brilliant recreation of a lost period

A remarkable and very good writer... Everett writes with a rare vividness. He takes a sensuous pleasure in what he sees, and he has a fine ability to translate this into words that have the immediacy of one of Matisse's paintings

An extraordinary feat of historical and artistic imagining

Intense, gritty and extraordinarily gripping, these stories drop to the deck much that is touted as 'dirty' and 'realistic'. Where You Find It is an excellent collection

An impressively sustained, and unusually intense, literary experiment

He is a master of the comedy of social awkwardness... Jacobson is playing a sophisticated literary game, in this most literate of novels

Mesmerising...also as delightfully funny a novel as one would expect from Jacobson, who revels in language and in the perverse spell it can cast... The Act of Love is spellbinding, not just in its characterisation, or in its simplicity of plot, in the flirtatiousness with which Jacobson courts language, or the stylish sardonic humour that seems to come so easily, but in its entirety

The Act of Love, like Jacobson's other work, contains a rich vein of humour...Intelligent and erudite, Felix is a fascinating character

Jacobson's page-turning account of sexual obsession is replete with erudite flourishes and sophisticated insight

One of the author's most affecting, honest and brilliant works. It is a searingly well written piece by a ridiculously underrated novelist

Entertaining... Jacobson's prose is incisive and off-kilter, abrasive and often hilarious

Felix Quinn, the narrator of the book...explains it beautifully - and this is a very good novel... Feeling unsafe makes him feel alive. And loss, of course, is the wellspring of good storytelling

The Act of Love is an ambitious and at times extremely uncomfortable novel

It is an almost frighteningly brilliant achievement. Why did the Booker judges not recognise it?

This is a very good novel

Jacobson's 10th novel is a moving, thought-provoking and darkly witty story of desire and love

Trollope explores, with infinite delicacy, the strands that make a family

An absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers

Trollope has created a fount of bitchy tension which she manipulates with great skill